HID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, and Double ‘ASTORS’ Award Winner in American Security Today’s 2020 Homeland Security Awards Program, has expanded its award-winning Seos^® credential family with two new products.

The Seos 16K is the industry’s first credential certified to the highest IT security level established by the independent testing service provider TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH, and features the highest memory in the series to support multi-application deployments.

Seos Essential on the other hand is a new, single-application credential that delivers trusted security, data protection for deployments where complex implementations are not necessary.

“Seos technology continues to evolve to meet the needs of sophisticated users while also offering new economical options for basic physical access control in everyday applications,” explains Harm Radstaak, Senior Vice President and Head of Physical Access Control Solutions with HID Global.

“In addition to expanding the Seos family to meet broader requirements, we have achieved a major smart card industry certification milestone that gives organizations the confidence they can mitigate risk by investing in a credential that has been independently validated by a qualified and unbiased third party.”

HID® Global’s Seos® Essential card Key Features Include:

• Highly secure

  • Seos is Secure Identity Object® (SIO)-enabled, allowing for multi-layered security beyond the card technology and protecting identity data from unauthorized access

• Single-application

  • A cost effective and simplified approach designed for traditional access control solutions where more complex multi-application implementations are not needed

• Convenient

  • Fully supported by HID Signo, iCLASS SE and multiCLASS SE reader platforms

• Heightened privacy protection

  • Seos offers best-in-class data and privacy protection by incorporating mutual authentication and secure messaging mechanisms into stringent best practices for data protection

The TÜV SEAL-5 standards represent a more stringent approach than other security evaluation standards in that it requires a robust and validated change management policies, communication processes and lifecycle management procedures.

HID’s TÜV-certified Seos 16K card is the successor to its offering for multi-application use cases that require 16 kilobytes (KB) of memory.

The credential now delivers improved read performance and features a new hardware platform and an enhanced Seos operating system that has been certified to the most rigorous Security Assurance Level (SEAL) in the TÜV methodology for evaluating trusted site and product security.

The TÜV SEAL-5 evaluation signifies all requirements have been fulfilled for delivering the highest level of IT product or service trustworthiness.

The Seos Essential card offers a cost-effective and simplified approach to providing trusted management of secure identities.

Users benefit from all of the proven and highly secure, multi-layered features of HID’s award-winning Seos technology, which includes the latest cryptographic algorithms and security techniques plus a secure messaging protocol that protects data transmission between card and reader.

The credential is fully supported by the HID^® Signo™ and iCLASS SE^® reader platforms, and is also available as a multi-technology card, combining 125 KHz Prox and a high-frequency Seos contactless microprocessor.

To Learn More about HID’s Seos credential offerings, please visit hidglobal.com/product-display/cards-and-credentials/iclass-seos

HID Global Takes Double Platinum in 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program

American Security Today’s ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards program is entering its Sixth Year and continues to recognize the Outstanding Innovations of top firms and agencies in the Homeland Security and Public Safety fields.

The Annual ‘ASTORS’ Awards is the preeminent U.S. Homeland Security Awards Program highlighting the most cutting-edge and forward-thinking security solutions coming onto the market today, to ensure our readers have the information they need to stay ahead of the competition, and keep our Nation safe – one facility, street, and city at a time.

90% of ‘ASTORS’ Award Winners return to compete in the Annual ‘ASTORS‘ Homeland Security Awards Program, and 100% of ‘ASTORS’ Sponsors have returned year to year to reap the benefits of their participation in the industry’s largest and most comprehensive Annual Awards Program.

2020 was a very challenging year for everyone due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the much heralded AST ‘ASTORS’ Awards Winners Presentations and exclusive Luncheon at the Jacob Javits Center in NYC was canceled and rescheduled for 2021 due to the virus.

However, the 2020 ‘ASTORS’  Homeland Security Awards Program was again a huge success and many new categories were added including a section for COVID-19 Detection and Innovation.

HID Global (First of Two)

Best Law Enforcement Mobile Device

• HID NOMAD™ 30 Pocket Reader

• HID Global’s HID NOMAD 30 Pocket Reader is an affordable, single fingerprint mobile identification solution for efficient and dependable biometric capture and database verification.

• Its portability eliminates the need for obtaining fingerprints at a fixed location and facilitates biometric capture in the field, and the ergonomic design easily provides comfortable singlehanded use by the operator and fingerprints can be collected without physical contact with the subject.

• Law enforcement agencies use the NOMAD 30 solution to efficiently identify individuals in public areas. This helps keep custody suites free to house confirmed offenders—rather than those awaiting identification—and reduces overall processing costs and keeps police officers patrolling the streets.

• One police department in a major city estimates savings of more than $600,000 in the first year of deployment and has positively identified more than 12,000 persons of interest.

• The convenience and mobilization of the suspect identification process that the HID NOMAD 30 Pocket Reader enables has improved relations and built trust between the police force and the community it serves.

HID Global (Second of Two)

Best Identification Management Solution

• WorkforceID™

• WorkforceID by HID Global is a new identity management cloud service that provides an ever-expanding set of workforce and visitor identity management applications that help customers address their evolving cyber and physical security, compliance and business challenges.

• WorkforceID digitally transforms how enterprises manage physical access identities and credentials for their workplace, big or small.

• Based on the enterprise-grade HID SAFE™ physical identity access and visitor management software, WorkforceID takes the best of HID SAFE and makes it better.

• Simple to use, WorkforceID™ offers streamlined and automated service set-up and account on-boarding and off-boarding, with no complex software to install/configure/support on-premise.

• *HID Global was also recognized with in the 2019, 2018 and 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Awards Programs.

HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places and things making it possible for people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.

The company’s trusted identity solutions give people convenient access to physical and digital places and connect things that can be identified, verified and tracked digitally.

Millions of people around the world use HID products and services to navigate their everyday lives, and billions of things are connected through HID technology.

To Learn More, please visit www.hidglobal.com.

The 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program was sponsored by ATI Systems, Attivo Networks, Automatic Systems, Desktop Alert, X.Labs and Reed Exhibitions, every one a returning Sponsor from 2020, 2019 and More.

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2021 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards at https://americansecuritytoday.com/ast-awards/.

Comprehensive List of Categories Include:

Don’t see a Direct Hit for your Product, Agency or Organization?

With the unprecedented occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus of the safety and security industries has realized the need to increase innovations to address the daily growing challenges.

As such AST aims to make sure these firms and professionals are reflected in the 2021 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program, so we’d like to encourage you to submit appropriate categories recommendations and include COVID-19 Frontline Professionals in your Nominations to see that these Professionals, Facilities, and Vendors receive the Recognition they Deserve!

Submit your category recommendation for consideration to Michael Madsen, AST Publisher at: mmadsen@americansecuritytoday.com.

Why American Security Today?

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

The traditional security marketplace has long been covered by a host of publications putting forward the old school basics to what is Today – a fast changing security landscape.

American Security Today is uniquely focused on the broader Homeland Security & Public Safety marketplace with over 75,000 readers at the Federal, State and local levels of government as well as firms allied to government.

American Security Today brings forward a fresh compelling look and read with our customized digital publications that hold readers eyes throughout the story with cutting edge editorial that provides solutions to their challenges.

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The AST Digital Publications is distributed to over 75,000 qualified government and homeland security professionals in federal, state and local levels.

‘PROTECTING OUR NATION, ONE CITY AT A TIME’

AST Reaches both Private & Public Experts, essential to meeting these new challenges.

Today’s new generation of public safety and security experts need real-time knowledge to deal with domestic and international terrorism, lone wolf attacks, unprecedented urban violence, shifts in society, culture and media bias – making it increasingly difficult for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Military and Private Security Professionals to implement coordinated security measures to ensure national security and improve public safety.

These experts are from Government at the federal, state and local level as well as from private firms allied to government.

AST provides a full plate of topics in our AST Monthly Magazine Editions, AST Website and AST Daily News Alerts, covering 23 Vital Sectors such as Access Control, Perimeter Protection, Video Surveillance/Analytics, Airport Security, Border Security, CBRNE Detection, Border Security, Ports, Cybersecurity, Networking Security, Encryption, Law Enforcement, First Responders, Campus Security, Security Services, Corporate Facilities, and Emergency Response among others.

AST has Expanded readership into integral Critical Infrastructure audiences such as Protection of Nuclear Facilities, Water Plants & Dams, Bridges & Tunnels, and other potential targets of terrorism.

Other areas of concern include Transportation Hubs, Public Assemblies, Government Facilities, Sporting & Concert Stadiums, our Nation’s Schools & Universities, and Commercial Business Destinations – all enticing targets due to the large number of persons and resources clustered together.

To learn more about the 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners solutions, Check Out the New 2020 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS Edition Fully Interactive Magazine – the Best Products of 2020 ‘A Year in Review’.

The Annual CHAMPIONS edition includes a review of the ‘ASTORS’ Award Winning products and programs, highlighting key details on many of the winning firms products and services, includes video interviews and more.

It is your Go-To source throughout the year for ‘The Best of 2020 Products and Services‘ endorsed by American Security Today, and can satisfy your agency’s and organization’s most pressing Homeland Security and Public Safety needs.

From Physical Security (Access Control, Critical Infrastructure, Perimeter Protection and Video Surveillance Cameras and Video Management Systems), to IT Security (Cybersecurity, Encryption, Data Storage, Anti-Malware and Networking Security – Just to name a few), the 2020 ‘ASTORS’ CHAMPIONS EDITION has what you need to Detect, Delay, Respond to, and Mitigate today’s real-time threats in our constantly evolving security landscape.

It also includes featured guest editorial pieces from some of the security industry’s most respected leaders, and recognized firms in the 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Program.

• For a complete list of 2020 ‘ASTORS’ Award Winners, click here.

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